Archive for September, 2007

About the cake: “Persistence of Memory”

Thursday, September 27th, 2007


Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory Cake 

Well, this morning was our Kare 11 interview. They’d asked me to work on a cake on camera, so with a convention coming up this weekend, I figured this cake would be perfect! This is for the Minnesota Mensa group, meeting this weekend.

This cake underwent a total evolution from the time we initially went over plans with the hospitality chairperson for the event. The initial plan was to do something relatively plain and “autumn-y”. When I found out that it would be on the news, I contacted them for the go-ahead to go nuts with the idea.. and here’s what we ended up with! (more…)

Kare 11 – Ace of Twin Cities Cakes

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

The following is the text article Kare 11 posted on their site, to accompany the news article they covered today.  The quotes are fairly paraphrased, but you get the idea anyway :)

Ace of Twin Cities Cakes

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About the cake: “Raven”

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007


Raven

Well, this cake is less than 24 hours old, and we’ve already had a ton of questions about it. Figured I’d post some information here, for those curious.

 This cake was made as a “thank you” to Kare 11 for doing the piece on me. “Raven” is a black labrador retriever who figures prominently in one of their local shows – “Minnesota Bound”. The dog is kind of… iconic.  At the end of the show, the host even jokes that she is the “star” of the show, which is about Minnesota outdoor life. One of our cats (Rat) LOVES the show – especially when the birds are on the tv.

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Margaret Braun cake – Finished!

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Well, after much cursing the idea to have tried this in the first place, the cake is done!

 It was actually finished late last week, but due to a wedding show on the weekend, I ran out of time to post it. Those of you who were at the wedding show may have seen it on our display table.

 For those of you who didn’t… here’s a final photo!

Margaret Braun Final